RockyBid’s New Theme

October 28, 2009

RockyBid’s new theme is now up, but the transition isn’t complete yet.

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1Kuaipai the First Chinese Penny Auction

October 28, 2009

1Kuaipai.com,  the first penny auction for Hong Kong users has opened today. The auctions are available in English and Traditional Chinese. Kuai Pai: What does the name mean? Here’s a little lesson in Mandarin: “Kuai” is Pinyin for the Mandarin slang word meaning ‘buck,’ it is also Pinyin for ‘quick.’ And ‘Pai Mai’ is Pinyin [...]

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Interview with GetitforaCent

October 28, 2009

The owner of GetitforaCent.com recently introduced himself on the forum and just told us more about his new penny auction site and what got GetitforaCent started. Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? GetitforaCent: I started out working as an auto mechanic, working for dealerships. I did that for about [...]

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Penny Auction Wavee Opens

October 28, 2009

Penny auction Wavee.com just opened.  A few weeks ago Wavee allowed us to beta test their auctions and donated a netbook to the Boys & Girls Club on our behalf. Read our interview with Jacky from Wavee: Penny Auction Watch: What got you interested in the entertainment shopping industry? Wavee: Wavee wanted to create a [...]

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RockyBid 2.0 Almost Here

October 27, 2009

RockyBid is currently moving over to RockyBid 2.0 and auctions are suspended, here’s a message from them: You must be wondering why all of the auctions have suddenly stopped. Well, get excited… it’s here… the new and improved RockyBid 2.0 is about to launch. Over the coming hours we will be re-launching the website. The [...]

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iPennybid is Now BidVoo

October 5, 2009

Remember iPennybid? We received a legal threat, many negative comments from unhappy iPennyBid bidders and found out that iPennyBid required scans of bidders driver’s licenses. Now iPennyBid is gone and the offline message reads: “Due to licensing reasons, iPennyBid.com is no longer available in your country. We will post more information when available.” Licensing reasons? [...]

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Nick Lachey to Hand Deliver Wins

October 2, 2009

According to OKmagazine Nick Lachey is going to spend 11 days hand-delivering wins to some of the winners on his reverse auction site Winnit. Don’t you wish you would have tried Winnit now? While on his “Everybody Wins Tour of the USA,” Nick will also be volunteering at soup kitchens and food banks. Way to [...]

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Penny Auction to Offer $19,000 Vacation

September 30, 2009

The new penny auction BuckBidz.com just wrote to us today to tell us that they are hoping to soon auction a “World Tour Vacation Package” worth up to $19,000 sometime in the next month. The vacation is said to include Europe, Asia, and South America. This adventurous auction will start at just $0.01. According to [...]

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Muulu You Should Be Ashamed

September 25, 2009

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.-Sophocles We’ve already warned you about the new penny auction scam Muulu.com How do we go about warning the rest of the Internet? There’s already over 359 instances of the Muulu auction thanks to press release websites. Not only is Muulu a joke, according to this post  New [...]

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Is CentMonkey Legit?

August 16, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theshadowknows/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 If you only had a daily average pageview of under 400 would you be auctioning off $10,663.71 worth of items at noon on a Sunday? CentMonkey is. Some of their auctions right now: $5,000 with 108 bids. MacBook Pro  that has so far received 55,720 bids, A Canon camcorder with [...]

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Still Tons of Bidders on iPennyBid! Really?

August 12, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/ / CC BY 2.0 A reader just told us that they found iPennyBid from an ad on Facebook. (We’re on Facebook btw, click the link to add us!) (Read our previous posts on iPennyBid: July 31st, August 11th) The amount of bidders and the user names look pretty suspicious for an auction that’s only [...]

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An Online Marketplace for Penny Auctions

July 31, 2009

(Update Sept. 4th, 2009:-JustLower/OzyAuctions just commented on this post, please read their comment, we’ve modified our skeptical comments and leave the determining up to you, our reader,  it was largely an oversight on our part to be critical of minor issues. Our tone leaned on the critical side as we are skeptical of many entertainment [...]

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Where’d Famdabidosy Go?

July 28, 2009

“Famdabidosy Auctions …Site is under maintainence, will return soon….” It looks like they had to upgrade their software from a pirated version such as the one offered by SiteClonez, they should be back soon. Discuss Here

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Flying High Auctions & Vamooza

July 21, 2009

Flying High Auctions  (the charity penny auction site we talked about previously) is back online. Their auction format is set up to offer 5 of the same items per day.  Today they have Ed Hardy™ R/C Helicopters. Register here for 5 free bids to try them out. Take a look at their Terms & Conditions: [...]

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Reverse Auctions for Sale

June 25, 2009

Expect to see a wave of new penny auctions. Developers are getting in on the trend and selling reverse auction software.  On eBay, for a whole $75, you can buy your own penny auction site and for $50 more they will advertise for you to get “1000′s of users.” The ultimate question: Will they be [...]

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Penny Auctions for a Cause?

June 24, 2009

Updates Below There’s a new charity penny auction, CP Pilot Auctions, it was just launched yesterday by Keith Brown to raise money for people suffering with cerebral palsy.  Read more about CP Pilot Auctions here. CP Pilot is still having server problems as the site keeps going down and giving me the “500 Internal Server”error [...]

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Bid Throttling to Stay on Top

June 17, 2009

Bid Throttling: The strategy where a bidder constantly hits the bid button as soon as a competing bid is placed. Take Note: On some penny auctions this is against the terms of service. Be sure to read all rules pertaining to the penny auction site you are registering for before you purchase bids and play. [...]

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What is a Penny Auction?

May 26, 2009

Just what is a penny auction? A penny auction is an auction where bidders pay-per-bid for an item and the time increases with each bid. The winning bidder is the bidder whoever is the last to bid when the timer counts down to 0 seconds. Not all auction websites are the same so make sure [...]

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